Nikki Asian Bistro

Located in the strip mall between Bojangles’ and Stanly Community College. This restaurant has a nice mixture of Chinese, Thai and Japanese. They offer the Chinese main stay dishes, a few Thai dishes and an extensive Sushi menu. This is perfect for this community. The have limited seating which can fill up at lunch time. They had two groups when I visited, one was 5 people and the other had 7.
They seated me right away and took my beverage order. My entrée order was taken upon arrival of the drink. I noticed that the waitress did not write down my order. Ordered the hot and sour soup and Chicken Kung Pao, that’s what I always get in a Chinese restaurant. If they can’t make these two things I probably won’t come back. Well, you guessed it… the order got screwed up. I got an egg roll (don’t like them) and no soup. At first, I thought the egg roll came with the meal… but it was delivered as an appetizer. Pet peeve, if you can’t remember the orders, write it down! I got the Chicken Kung Pao and it was good. Just good not great! The sauce was rather thin and had a good flavor with just the right spiciness. The vegetables were obviously fresh and cut just right to be bite size pieces.
I patiently waited to get my check after I was obviously finished, clean plate. I know they want to be polite and wait until you ask for the check sometimes. This was an obvious case of not enough staff to serve a full restaurant at lunch time (12 noon). I finally politely place my $ 20 bill on the table which got the attention of my waitress and she brought me the check. Then I waited for at least 5 more minutes for her to pick it up. Then I waited several more minutes, to get my change.
Good food, miscommunication on the order (understandable), but combined with over 15 minutes wait to exchange money… rating zinged one point. Thus the 3 rating. I’ll go back for another try… since it’s the only sit down Asian food in Locust. I was the first to review, good food and friendly… if it weren’t for these points probably would have gotten a 2 rating.